Will land transfer always increase technical efficiency in China?—A land cost perspective

Liu, Yu; Yan, Binjian; Wang, Yue; Ying-heng, Zhou

doi:10.1016/j.landusepol.2018.12.002

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“…Wang et al (2018) revealed that local government-led farmland transfer causes the accumulation of farmers with extremely large management scales, which leads to technical inefficiency. From the perspective of farmland costs, farmland transfer has a negative influence on agricultural technical efficiency (Liu et al , 2019).…”

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Farmland transfer and agricultural economic growth nexus in China: agricultural TFP intermediary effect perspective

Yuan-pei

Yang

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2021

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PurposeThe multidimensional effects of farmland transfer in China have been profoundly unstudied. The purpose of this paper is to provide insights on the effects of the intermediary role of agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) of farmland transfer on agricultural economic growth in China.Design/methodology/approachBased on the agricultural data of 30 provinces in China over the period 2005–2018, this paper uses the intermediary effect model to test the relationship between farmland transfer, agricultural TFP and agricultural economic growth. This paper employed an intermediary effect test model to investigate the intermediary role of agricultural TFP in the influence of farmland transfer on agricultural economic growth.FindingsThe findings indicated that farmland transfer has a significant effect on promoting agricultural economic growth. There is a significant “inverted U-shaped” relationship between farmland transfer and agricultural TFP. The sample value of 84.3% of farmland transfers in China is still within the TFP promoting effect range. In addition, farmland transfer has an indirect impact on agricultural economic growth through the channel of agricultural TFP. Agricultural TFP plays a significant intermediary role, but the effect is relatively lowOriginality/valueThis paper is the first to provide fundamental evidence on the impact of farmland transfers on agricultural economic growth in China, driven by agricultural TFP as an intermediary factor. Agricultural TFP can reduce the involution effect of farmland transfer and promote an indirect effect on agricultural economic growth.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Farmland transfer and agricultural economic growth nexus in China: agricultural TFP intermediary effect perspective

Yuan-pei

Yang

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2021

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“…However, some scholars have explained the inefficiency in land transfers from other angles. With an increase in land rents, land transfers restrict improvements in agricultural production efficiency [36,37]; land transfers through government interventions are inefficient [38].…”

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Structural and Efficiency Effects of Land Transfers on Food Planting: A Comparative Perspective on North and South of China

2021

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This paper uses a multi-period PSM-DID model to explore the impact of land transfers on food production from a spatial perspective and analyses the income effects, scale effects, and structural effects of such transfers. The empirical results are as follows. (1) Land transfers have reduced the proportion of food crops planted by farmers, and the planting structure has shifted towards cash crops, which has obvious structural effects. (2) The impact of land transfers on the planting structure is spatially heterogeneous. Land transfers are more common in the south than in the north. Land transfers have reduced wheat planting in the north, while rice planting has been reduced in the south. (3) Land transfers have increased the operating income of farmers and have an income effect, but the income of farmers in the north is higher than that of farmers in the south. (4) Land transfers do not have scale effects. Current land transfers among farmers are mainly conducted on a small scale and do not improve farmers’ efficiency in planting food. The following suggestions are proposed. (1) A market mechanism for land transfers should be established to promote large-scale land transfers. (2) The trend towards non-grain cultivation due to land transfers should be halted to ensure food security. (3) The different impacts of urbanization in the northern and southern regions should be considered, and the division of labour in grain-producing areas should be strengthened. (4) Land transfer models should be developed, and the development of smart agriculture should be explored.

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“…PFs that have a higher expectation toward the future grain market performance are more motivated to benefit from the long-run investments, such as increase area of land rented in and secure long-term land rental contracts. While non-PFs are less optimistic toward future grain market performance and are more responsive to the short-term price decline, simply examining the overall correlations between smallholders' land renting-in behavior and their agricultural production might yield some contradicting results since renting-in land might associate with the increase (Yao and Hamori, 2019) or decrease of agricultural productivity (Liu et al, 2019). In this study, we intend to distinguish rent-in households into PFs and non-PFs, so that we can better capture the heterogeneities between these two groups of tenants and examine the heterogeneous correlations of farmers' land renting-in behavior and their agricultural productivity when they experience a price decline.…”

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Price decline, land rental markets and grain production in the North China Plain

Wang

Fan

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PurposeThis study examines the heterogeneous correlations between rural farmers' land renting behavior and their grain production when they experienced a significant price decline.Design/methodology/approachWe used well-timed panel data obtained from a two-round survey held in 2013 and 2017 among 621 households in the North China Plain. The empirical analyses were conducted by using the pooled ordinary least squares (OLS) and fixed effects models.FindingsRural tenants were having heterogeneous responses in land renting behavior and agricultural production when there was a price decline. A group of optimistic tenants (as professional farmers) were more likely to enlarge the farm scale for grain production through land rental markets but decrease variable investment levels (and subsequently decreased productivity) to cope with price decline. In contrast, nonprofessional farmers (the other rural tenants) were rather pessimistic about market performance, and they significantly decreased their grain production area to cope the price decline, but there was no decrease in grain productivity through reducing variable inputs.Originality/valueThis study contributes to the extant literature on the relationship between farmers' land renting-in behavior and agricultural production. By dividing the tenants into professional and nonprofessional farmers, we argue that there is a significant heterogeneous correlation between rural tenants' land renting behavior and grain production when farmers experience a price decline.

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Will land transfer always increase technical efficiency in China?—A land cost perspective

Cited by 77 publications

References 15 publications

Farmland transfer and agricultural economic growth nexus in China: agricultural TFP intermediary effect perspective

Farmland transfer and agricultural economic growth nexus in China: agricultural TFP intermediary effect perspective

Structural and Efficiency Effects of Land Transfers on Food Planting: A Comparative Perspective on North and South of China

Price decline, land rental markets and grain production in the North China Plain

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